Venture capitalist Marc Andreessen is known to have popularize the sentence: “Software is eating the world”. Thus, some start-ups based on a new software are disrupting whole sectors, like AirBnb with the hotel industry.

Benedict Evans, an Internet Analyst, has come up with a new report with the title: “Mobile is eating the world”. He has some interesting conclusions that

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ABI Research estimates that the global app economy will reach $25 billion this year. Around 35% ($8.8M) will be tablet apps and 65% ($16.4 M) will be smartphones apps. Apple will continue its domination of the app sector with a market share around 65%. ABI forecasts that by 2018, tablet apps should surpass smartphone apps in revenue. In five years, total global app revenue could reach $92 billion. ABI’s analyst believes that Apple’s market share will stay very strong for many years to come: “By 2018 in terms of tablets it will still be 57 percent, and in terms of tablets plus smartphones, it will still be above 50 percent … around 52 percent.”

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Our top application of the month is Allrecipes. The app available on iPhone and iPad enable users to personalized their recipes according to three categories: Dish type, ingredients, Time of preparation and cooking. The app is a great way to cook according to your personal tastes while saving time. The first recipes in the search are the best rated recipes by Allrecipes users. The website www.allrecipes.com is also a great destination for recipes.

Allrecipes.com found that 35 percent of online cooks used smartphones to look up recipes. While recipe research was by far the most common smartphone activity, cooks are using the handheld gadgets to do a lot more inside and outside the kitchen: 29 percent said they have used their phones to photograph finished dishes, 18 percent created digital shopping lists with apps like Grocery IQ and Ziplist, 16 percent redeemed digital coupons at the grocery store and 12 percent used the phone to share a recipe on a social media site.

The number of people using smartphones to watch cooking videos is still small at just 15 percent, but on the PC and tablet, streamed video has exploded among women (Many of the poll results only include women since not enough men responded to form a suitable statistical sample).

Here are some highlights from the report:

The most popular digital culinary resources weren’t cooking portals like Allrecipes or Food Network, but search engines, according to 43 percent of online cooks. Recipe sites were a close second, though, at 42 percent. The number one search term, you guessed it, was “chicken”.

Digital cuisine is big business: citing eMarketer, Allrecipes said consumer packaged good advertising spent online is increasing from $134 million in 2000 to a projected $3.6 billion in 2012.

Allrecipes found that mindshare in online cooking is drifting to more general social media platforms like Facebook, Pinterest, YouTube and Twitter. One third of female cooks polled said it was important that cooking portals keep up by integrating with those big social networks.

Expectations are high that more of the shopping and meal planning process will become digital: a majority of respondents stated that in 15 years the paper coupon will become extinct, the digital wallet will replace the leather billfold and that groceries will be ordered online and delivered to the home.

Forty-four percent of men and women polled named Cooking websites as their preferred cooking resource, compared to 19 percent who said cookbooks and 9 percent who said their parents.

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Juniper Research reports that Apple has now 2X more cumulative download app than Android: 40M vs 20M. Both mobile operating systems largely dominate tha app market with a combined 75% market share. Apple got a huge 20M download app only in 2012. iOS developers have received over $7 billion from iOS apps, while Apple collected 30%, just over $3 billion from the arrangement, including around $1.5 billion for 2012.

Nokia Store, Blackberry App World and GetJar are in the top 5 app stores of 2012, with around nine billion downloads between them. It becomes difficult for Microsoft and Amazon to attract mobile developers. Both Apple and Google can deliver immense scale, with audiences in the hundreds of millions.

While Apple and Android have similar download statistics for 2o12, Apple monetizes around 10% of its app, as opposed of only 3% for Google apps. iOS apps also see far higher revenues coming from freemium.